Hair-pin attachment.



No. 878,386. PATENTED FEB. 4, 1908' U. HARTMAN.

HAIR PIN ATTACHMENT.

' APPLIOATION FILED JULY 8,1907.

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Svwevdoa CARL HARTMAN, OF SPRINGFIELD, SOUTH DAKOTA.

HAIR-PIN ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 4;, 1908.

Application filed July 8. 1907- Serial No- 382.672-

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL HARTMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Spring field, in the county of Bonhomme, State of South Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair-Pin Attachments; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention has reference to hair pin attachments, and it aims to provide an exceedingly simple, inexpensive, and effective device by means of which a pencil may be held in place upon a hair pin when not in use.

To this end the invention consists in a spring clip secured to a hair pin of the ordinary looped or U-shaped type in such a manner that a pencil carried by the clip will be disposed in an approximately horizontal position, or at right-angles to the plane of the hair pin.

The invention will be readily understood from a consideration of the following detailed description, and its preferred embodiment is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which like parts are designated by corresponding reference numerals in the views.

Of the said drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a hair pin equipped with the pencil carrying clip, Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof.

In its practical embodiment the invention consists of a hair pin 5, of the ordinary type and a clip 6, attached to the loop portion 7, thereof. The clip is formed of a single strip of spring metal bent upon itself to provide a front and a rear member each of which is l transversely waved or corrugated as 1 nd1 cated by the numeral 8, the free upper ends of said members being bent away from each other to form a flaring mouth 9. The disposition of the members of the clip is such that the rear member lies against the head of the wearer of the hair pin.

From the foregoing description it will be apparent that a pencil 10 disposed between the central corrugations of the clip members will be held in an approximately horizontal position, extending at right-angles to the hair pin. It will likewise be understood that the pencil may be easily moved into and out of engagement with the clip owing to the resilience of the metal from which the clip is formed.

In attaching the clip to the hair pin the latter is moved into the seat formed by the lowermost corrugations of the clip, so that the clip and hair pin in a sense engage each other; the two are then held against relative displacement by means of a horizontal pin or bolt 11.

The clip may, obviously, be ornamented in any desired manner.

\Vhat is claimed, is,

1. The combination of a hair pin and a pencil-carrying clip attached thereto, the clip being formed of a single strip of spring metal bent upon itself to provide front and rear members adapted to receive a pencil therebetween.

2. The combination of a hair pin and a vertical clip secured at its lower end thereto, said clip being formed of a single strip of spring metal bent upon itself to provide a front and rear member adapted to receive a pencil therebetween, the pencil when in place extending at right-angles to the hair pm.

In testimony whereof, I allix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

CARL HARTMAN.

I/Vitnesses CI-IAs. HILL, V INTALR. NASH. 

